Garment-holder.



PATENTED JULY 7, 1908.

G. J. MALINGS. GARMENT HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY 12. 1906';

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- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES J. MALINGS, OF EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-HO LDEl-t.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES J. MALiNes, a citizen of the United States, residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in garment holders and is especially designed for use as a cuff holder in securing or attaching cuffs to the inner side or linings of coat sleeves, but may be found useful for holding or securing other articles of apparel, such as neckties, hosiery, under-garments, etc.

The invention relates particularly to improved means for securing holders of this class to the inner sides or linings of garments, and, more especially, to the inner side or the lining of a coat sleeve so as to hold the cuff at any desired position to which it may be adjusted.

The paramount object of the invention is to produce a generally improved device of this class which will be exceedingly simple of construction, cheap of manufacture, efficient in use, and much better adapted to its intended purposes than any other device of the same class with which I am acquainted.

With these ends in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved holder, having its jaws distended, and one arm of the attaching-pin disengaged from the respective pin-guard. Fig. 2, a side view of the improved holder in its normal operative position. Fig. 3, a detailed view of the pivotally mounted doublearmed attaching-pin.

Similar numerals of reference designate like parts throughout all the figures of the drawings.

The im roved holder consists of two pivotally or ingedly-mounted members 1, and 2, provided at one end with a toothed or serrated jaw portion 3, and at the other with a handle or clasp portion 4. The members 1, and 2, have their sides, intermediate the ends thereof, bent over and about to form pivot Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 12, 1906.

Patented July '7, 1908.

Serial No. 316,488.

hooks 5, taking into the ends of a coiled spring 6, by means of which the jaw portions of said members are normally held in engagement With each other.

The main body portion or member 1, has its sides bent over and about, near its rear end, to form oppositely-disposed in-guards 7, and its rear end bent over and about to form a guard 8 to prevent the rear portion of the member from engaging the cloth or the cloth being engaged by the free ends of the attaching-pin, hereinafter described, when the latter is being returned to its normal position. A double or two-armed attachingpin 9, is ivotally mounted and secured to the main ody portion 1, near the front end thereof, by means of a pivot pin 10, and the pointed or free ends of said attaching-pin are ada ted to normally rest within the opposite y-disposed pin-guards 7.

When it is desired to secure the improved holder to the garment, as for example, to the inner side or lining of a coat sleeve, the point ed or free ends of the pin are released from the pin-guards 7, and the attaching-pin is swung around on the pivot pin 10, and the two arms thereof are compressed into substantially parallel position, and, preferably, in alinement with the members 1, and 2, of the holder, and the pointed ends of the pin are inserted and passed through the inner side or lining of the coat sleeve, the rear or clasp portion of the holder extending toward the end or cuff ortion of the coat sleeve. When the pointed ends of the pin have been passed through the cloth or material, the improved holder is swung about or reversed and the ends of the pin arms are released within the pin-guards 7, thus securing the holder in proper position on the inner side of the coat sleeve. The rear edges of the cuff can then be engaged by the jaw portions of the clasp or holder in the usual manner.

Having thus described my invention, I declare that what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,-

1. In a garment holder, the combination with a pair of spring-resisted pivotallymounted en aging-members one of which is provided with oppositely-disposed pin-guards and a pivot-pin mounted perpendicularly upon said engaging member; of a doublearmed attaching-pin having its coiled portion mounted on said pivot-pin and having its free end engaged by said pin-guards.

2. In a garment holder, the combination free or pointed ends of the arms thereof en With a pair of piVotally-mounted members gaged by said pin guards. provided with jaw and clasp portions, and a In testimony whereof I have signed my pairof oppositely-disposed in-guardsformed name to this specification in the presence of 5 near the rear or clasp end 0i one of said memtwo subscribing Witnesses.

bers; of a ivot in secured near the 'aW ortion of sai d last inentioned member and per- CHARLES MALINGS' pendicular to said member, and a double- Witnesses: armed attachingin having its base or coiled W. L. FAY, 10 portion secured about said pivot pin and the I L. B. FAY. 

